Hadfield is a talented, smart guy. Musician and songwriter, too. I mean, not a GREAT one, but he's a fricking astronaut, so it's sorta like an icing of awesome on a cake of awesome filled with awesome-flavoured filling.

also, it reminded me of this episode. Peter is in awe of the view of earth from space ... for about 3 seconds, then his cell phone slowly rises and obstructs the view out the window and he starts playing with that instead.

borg:In 20 days " he has tallied more than 3,000 tweets, sending back photos and sharing experiences, on Twitter. "

So he's just a space tourist and not up there to do any actual work?

They do get free time you know, least they have another mutiny on a space station. Not to mention spending a few minutes here and there throughout the day aboard ISS on public outreach is just as much part of the job and as long as it doesn't impede his on station duties who cares?

I don't know what is more amazing, the fact that Cmdr_Hadfield is sending messages from space about cleaning the ISS toilets or the fact that I'm sitting on the toilet reading messages from space on my phone. Truly we are living in the future! Science is coming out!